Commonwealth v. Holben

Reno, P. J.,

The defendant was convicted of violating the compulsory attendance provisions of the School Code (Act of May 18, 1911, ■§§ 1414 and 1423, P. L. 309). The Commonwealth established that defendant refused to send his children of school age to the public schools, although formally notified to do so.

The defendant advanced two grounds of defence. He offered to show that during the school term of 1923-24 his son had attended one of the schools in the district and was there assaulted by a teacher against whom a verdict was rendered by a jury in the Court of Common Pleas of this county;…